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Diastrophic dysplasia (DTD) is a rare autosomal recessive chondrodysplasia caused by biallelic variants in the\n                    <jats:italic>SLC26A2<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene. The current study aims to assess the clinical and molecular findings in Egyptian patients with DTD. This study enrolled fifteen patients who were clinically diagnosed with DTD. Exome sequencing identified nine homozygous variants in the\n                    <jats:italic>SLC26A2<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene across ten patients; five of these variants were novel (p.Cys78Gly, p.Leu132Pro, p.Asp177Tyr, p.Thr546Ala, and p.Leu554Phe), while four had been previously reported. Novel variants were confirmed using Sanger sequencing and were predicted to be disease-causing based on in silico analyses and structural protein modeling. 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